andrew francis portfolio
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A Graphic Design PortfolioTRANSCRIPT
The pencil museum
Re - Branding
The aim of this project was to rebrand a museum of my choice giving it a new logo, designing and coding a new website and then to make a style guide.
The handy guide to hand guides.
A project in which we had to create a niche guide which could be useful for a variety of audiences. I chose to make my guide on hand signals as these are universal throughout the world. The book is meant to be able to fit into any pocket.
Make your mark
Advertising
Branding
The idea of this project was to advertise make your mark. Make your mark is a company who help offenders and re offenders get back into a college education and my mission was to find a creative way off advertising it.
The Nissan Genius app
Digital Design
The aim of this project was to create a sub brand for Nissan. I created an app which will allow you to charge your Nissan electric vehicles wirelessly.
How many cameras do you own?
Iv got about 3, 3 or 4 at home. Cannon, Nikon, Has-selblad and a couple of polar-oid’s and a little digital compact.
Which is your favorite?
The compact camera because I get so fed up of carrying lights and kit about its just nice to have a lit-tle compact camera stuck in your pocket or coat pocket and when you see something you can just snap it without sometimes thinking about exposure and lenses and things like that so its nice to know you can just snap and compose your picture. Instead of carrying loads of kit.
Do you prefer film or digital cameras?
Um good question, I like both, film was really nice its always nice to process black and whit film and print black and white photos. Its nice to process colour negative and hand print your own colour prints but obviously you have to move with the time and digital, Yes, its exciting its excellent but I find it sometimes is a little bit tedious at times but the quality is superb and its nearly better than film in some circumstances but yeah digitals good and its here to stay so we’ve got to go with it and go with the flow.
Do you do any freelance photog-raphy??
Only a little bit, not much at this present time. I used to do up un-til about 18 months ago I used to do a lot but its finding the time when you’ve been working 5-6 days a week you just need a break. But when I was younger about 18 - 25 I used to be doing a lot more as much as I could but then you start to slow done a little. It would be nice. I don’t do my own personal work be-cause by the time you get home you just want to do what you want to do , and its not always photography.What made you decide to be-come a teacher/ technician?
Well im not technicaly a teacher its more but it is slightly drifting towards doing more demonstra-tion and tutoring] its not lectur-ing standard but the diference between the lecturers and the technical staff is that the tech-nical staff should support the lecturing staff, but its start-ing to change a little bit espe-cially in my role that im doing more demonstrations on the technical side on my own andsometimes the lecturers depend on the technical staff to support them a little bit more particularly in the studio were doing a lot more demo’s
What kind of photography jobs did you do before?
Mainly P.R work, press, archi-tectural work and comeercial, weddings, working for newspa-pers and freelancing for news-papers, and stuff like that.
What made you decide to be a photographer?
Good question, I failed my medical for the air force and I wasn’t going to be able to do
what I wanted to do in the air force so I was quite interested in photography this is
going back when I was about 16 or 17 and I liked photography so I started doing more
photography. And I got an apprenticeship and I just carried on until the present day.
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When and why did you start dancing?
I started dancing for a class when I was 3 but didn’t start a competitive class till I was 5 I was always dancing from the moment I could stand id just start bopping when there was music on, meaning my mum put me into a toddler dance class on Saturday mornings basi-cally just learning dances to nurs-ery rhymes and children’s songs.When I was 4 I was at my town’s local shopping cen-tre and there was a display byAn Irish dancing school, I watched amaze and told my mum that I wanted to do that, it wasn’t until a few weeks later when my parents went to parents evening and a teach-er told them that i had told her that I was learning Irish dancing that my mum found a class for me to join.Since then I’ve also had class-es in ballet, jazz, street, con-temporary and cheerleading.
Do you still dance now?
I still dance now within the uni-versity cheerleading squad after retiring from competitive Irish dancing in 2010. Retiring sounds so strange considering that I’m 19 but it’s the term used within dancing. When a dancer reaches adulthood and decides to focus on other things such as univer-sity, job or having a family rather than pursuing dance as a career.
How many medals do you have?
I have over 500 and about 100 trophies also, their main-ly for Irish dancing as this was my main style of dance.
What’s your favourite style of dance?
I love all styles of dance but would say my favourite was al-ways Irish dancing as it was the only style that i constantly com-peted in from a very young age.
What have you achieved and what’s your biggest achievement?
I have achieved many things through dancing that I’m proud of, i have danced at a lot of big venues including the royal Albert hall, the palladium, her majesty theatre, Birmingham n.i.a and Disneyland Paris. I also took my gsce in dance 2 years early at age 14 and achieved an a grade which I’m very proud off. However my biggest achievement is achieving the under 18 European champi-onship title in 2008 and then be-ing part of a team that came 3rd at the world championships in 2009.
DANCING THROUGH THE YEARS
SIAN MILLS
Tear sheet
Editorial Photography
The aim was to create a tear sheet on a member of staff at my university and a person with an intresting hobbie/skill, including interviewing, taking the images and creating all the design work on them.
childrens futuresINVESTING IN YOUR
Call the NHS Smoking Helpline on 0800 169 0 169
NHS Pig
Advertising
Photography
The Aim was to photograph and produce a piece of created advertising on a specific issue, I chose anti-smoking.
Tour de France
Advertisng
Branding
The aim of this brief was to create an identity, poster and internal signage and way finding to celebrate the history of the tour de france, the client required the posters to be colourful and to have some sort of representation on the stages in the tour de France.
The dimensions for these posters are
adshel 6 sheet 6ft x 4ft
48 sheet 3m x 6m
streetliner 3.048m x 0.348m
Positive/Negative
Book making
sculpture
The aim was to create a sculpture to represent glass half empty and glass half full. The sculptures turn to reveal different phrases, one of the glasses represents a positive way of thinking and one of the glasses represents a negative way of thinking.
• ABOUT ME
I have always enjoyed working with people and being part of a team and understand the needs for accuracy and paying attention to detail in my work.
My time at University has help me to continue to develop my creative ability and I have been able to produce some excellent projects by understanding the importance of being well organized aswell as having to work under pressure to meet set targets and goals.
• EDUCATION
DE MONTFORT UNIVERSITYBA HONS GRAPHIC DESIGN
CROYDON COLLEGEFOUNDATION DIPLOMAGRAPHIC DESIGN
MERTON COLLEGEA LEVELSGRAPHIC DESIGN - FINE ART - I.C.T
ASHBURTON SCHOOLGCSE’sINCLUDING MATHS AND ENGLISH
2010 - 2013
2007 - 2009
2002 - 2007
MARKETING SALE ASSISTANTDOOR TO DOOR SALES
CLINTON CARDSCASHIER
NEXTSALES ASSISTANT
GAMESALES ASSISTANT
• WORK EXPERIENCE
JULY 2011 - AUGUST 2011
FEBRUARY 2010 - MAY 2010
JULY 2008 - JULY 2009
SEPTEMBER 2008 - FEBRUARY 2009
• MY SKILLS
PHOTOSHOP
INDESIGN
ILLUSTRATOR
DREAMWEAVER
FLASH
DONT FORGET TO TAKE A LOOK AT :
be.net/Andrewfrancis
2009 - 2010